If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
Lord Byron

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
Lord Byron

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
Lord Byron

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
Lord Byron

In solitude, where we are least alone.
Lord Byron

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
Lord Byron

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
Lord Byron

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
Lord Byron

Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.
Lord Byron

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
Lord Byron

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
Lord Byron

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
Lord Byron

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
Lord Byron

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
Lord Byron

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
Lord Byron

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Lord Byron

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
Lord Byron

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Lord Byron

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
Lord Byron

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
Lord Byron